Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

The Jewish Leaders Want To Kill Jesus For Blasphemy Because He Is Making Himself God

³¹ The Jews again carried stones in order that they might stone Him. ³² Jesus responded to them, “I showed you many good works from the Father. For which work of them do you stone Me?” ³³ The Jews answered Him, “We do not stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy— even because You, being a human, are making Yourself God”.

Jesus Responds: Saying “I Am God’s Son” Is Not Blasphemy If I Am Doing God’s Works

³⁴ Jesus responded to them, “Has it not been written in your Law that ‘I said, you are gods^[a]’? ³⁵ If He^[b] called those ones to whom the word of God came gods— and the Scripture cannot be broken— ³⁶ do you^[c] say as to the One Whom the Father set-apart and sent-forth into the world that ‘You are blaspheming’ because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? ³⁷ If I am not doing the works of My Father, do not be believing Me. ³⁸ But if I am doing them— even if you do not believe Me, be believing the works, in order that you may come-to-know and be understanding^[d] that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father”. ³⁹ Then they were seeking again to seize Him, and He went out of their hand.

Jesus Leaves Judea

⁴⁰ And He went away again beyond the Jordan, to the place where John was first baptizing. And He was staying there. ⁴¹ And many came to Him, and were saying that “John did no sign— but all that John said about this One was true”. ⁴² And many believed in Him there.